Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent: including weekends, late duties, oncall , bank holidays
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Including weekends, late duties, on-call, bank holidays)
- Job ref
- 393-NMUH-1225-A
- Employer
- North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Middlesex University Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £49,178 - £55,492 per annum inclusive HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Band 7 Rotational Pharmacist
Band 7
The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.
The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.
In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.
Job overview
Are you looking for the opportunity to develop your skills in a forward-thinking and innovative pharmacy team? We would like to invite you to consider joining us in delivering our Pharmacy Vision of excellence. You will be working with our enthusiastic and dynamic team in providing the best clinical service for patients by working closely with other healthcare professionals.
The successful candidate will be a highly motivated, experienced hospital pharmacist with good clinical skills and managerial skills with a working knowledge of the medicines optimisation agenda.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work in all sections of the pharmacy service. This includes dispensary, ward/clinical pharmacy, education & training and technical services.
The post holder is expected to contribute to the development of pharmaceutical services to the Trust and to promote the highest standards of professional practice, trust policies and procedures.
A clinical commitment will be provided during all rotations. An internal structured training programme and mentorship scheme will support development of your clinical skills.
Working for our organisation
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium sized District General Hospital based in Edmonton in Enfield, North London. We serve a diverse multicultural population largely from the London boroughs of Enfield and Haringey. Many of our patients live in wards that are within the 5% most deprived in the UK and a large proportion of our patients were born abroad. This makes it both a fascinating and a challenging hospital to work in.
Over the last decade we have rebuilt almost all of the hospital and now have facilities that we are proud to work in. We employ over 3,500 staff, more than half of whom live locally. We encourage apprenticeships from the local community and work closely with our local Health Watch.
We are primarily an emergency led hospital with more than 90% of our bed days being used for patients admitted via our emergency and ambulatory units. As well as offering everything you would expect from a major acute hospital we have a number of tertiary services treating patients with HIV and Sickle Cell Disease and a large cancer and radiotherapy service. We also run our local community Sexual Health Clinics.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details of the main responsibilities of this role.
Person specification
Education and qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- M Pharm or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Non Medical Prescriber
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to work methodically whilst under pressure
- Effective verbal and written communication skills with all disciplines, colleagues and patients
- Ability to deal sympathetically and courteously with patients and/or members of the general public
- Ability to work a part of a team or alone as required
- Ability to prioritise own work and manage the work with other junior staff
- Ability to perform hands on aseptic work
- Effective organisation and prioritisation skills in workplace
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to work unsupervised and alone
- Proven time management skills
- Ability to demonstrate CPD
Experience and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Relevant hospital pharmacy experience
- Experience in the training and development of junior staff
- Experience in use of own initiative including dealing with queries from department users
- Ability to deal directly with public, senior clinicians and other health service staff
- Recent clinical pharmacy/ward pharmacy experience
- Project management experience
- Understanding of Formulary and DUR and clinical trial issues
- Ability to demonstrate appropriate clinical knowledge and application
- Computer Literate
- To have a good working knowledge on health and safety issues at work
Desirable criteria
- Experience in line managing a member of staff
- Supervisory experience
Personal qualities
Essential criteria
- Flexibility with regard to changes in work schedule
- Able to do late duty, weekend duties and bank holidays rostered
- Able to participate in out of hours service
- Interest in development of others
- Interest in expanding knowledge and self development
- Enthusiasm
- Awareness of Equal opportunities
Trust Values
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Clara Lai
- Job title
- Deputy Chief Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 887 3409
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